What we can help you with: Plates not inking right. Ink on your base. How to get your base in your press. Uneven impression from polymer. What base to choose for your press. Blobby printing. How to use a roller gauge. Really, anything.

Use these methods to send us your letterpress SOS. Email a photo or video of your press acting up. Tweet us of photo of your problem printing. Send a photo of the polymer plates that are acting up. Mail us your actual problem plates (or your actual letterpress printing). Send us whatever is useful for us to understand what’s going on.

Letterpress roundtables ask essential questions to important printers (like, What’s the most valuable tool in your print shop? or Do you have a tattoo related to letterpress somewhere on your body?). This is an ongoing series on our blog.